
Profiling Saints
Images of Modern Sanctity in a Global World
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Publisher)
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Published on 15. May 2023
380 pages
978-3-647-57356-4 (ISBN)
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'Profiling Saints' follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. 'Profiling Saints' looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.
Elisa Frei is an Assistant Professor at the faculty of Catholic Theology of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
Elisa Frei is an Assistant Professor at the faculty of Catholic Theology of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
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1. Edition
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English
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Göttingen
Germany
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with 29 figures
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7,97 MB
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978-3-647-57356-4 (9783647573564)
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Elisa Frei is an Assistant Professor at the faculty of Catholic Theology of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Elisa Frei, Eleonora Rai: Fantastic Saints and Where to Find Them: Why does Sanctity Matter?
- Franco Motta: Sanctity and Modernity: Opposition or Agreement?
- Section 1 Through the Saints: Understanding the Church across the Centuries
- Thomas Santa Maria: Temptation, Torture, and Truth
- Stefan Samerski: What about the Saints of the French Revolution?
- Joris Geldhof: Modern Saints in the Roman Missal
- Section 2 Visualizing Sanctity and the Sacred: Images and Promotion
- Raphaèle Preisinger, Hannah Joy Friedman, Jonathan E. Greenwood, Wei Jiang, Lucía Querejazu Escobari: Promoting Sanctity by the Means of Artworks
- Rachel Miller: Imagining the World through St Francis Xavier Imagery
- Tamara Dominici, Antonio Gerace: From Book to Image
- Section 3 Hagiographical Representations: The Jesuits
- Shiri Roelofs: Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621), the Louvain Lectures, and Economic Thought
- Carlo Pelliccia: "Or voi conoscete qual sarà stata la santità del Saverio"
- Section 4 Martyrs of Japan: Models, Emotions, and the Causes for Beatification and Canonization
- Carla Tronu Montané: From 'Martyrs of Japan' to 'Japanese Martyrs'
- Linda Zampol D'Ortia: Emotional Practices of Catholic Martyrdom in Early Modern Japan
- Hitomi Omata Rappo: Profiling the Japanese Martyrs
- Section 5 Vocation to Holiness: Three Case Studies from Early Modern Europe
- Beatrice Saletti: Lucia Broccadelli da Narni in Ferrara
- Lucio Biasiori: Holiness and Madness in Early Modern Florence
- Patryk M. Ryczkowski: Like a Phoenix into the Ashes
- Sabina Pavone: Sanctity in a Global World
- Notes on Contributors
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